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Who can participate in the ICI Society initiative?

To participate, 51ºÚÁÏÍø ELN partner libraries must:

• pay an annual fee according to the latest renewal
• have a librarian able to mediate access for users

How can the data be used?

Our licence allows for "use by faculty, students, and staff, for research and educational [purposes]". This includes researchers and graduate students using data sets to support their research and publications, and instructors using data in the classroom (e.g. a GIS course). Commercial use is not allowed.

For more details see the License Terms and Conditions page and documents, linked above.

What data sets are available under the agreement? Where can they be found?

There are two portals for access to data covered by the 51ºÚÁÏÍø ELN ICIS membership.

• ICIS' own data is available to its members through the ICI Society website, in particular the Map Viewer (for generating maps) and the Data Catalog (for downloading raw data sets).
• ICIS members are also allowed to access major data sets through the 51ºÚÁÏÍø government's Base Map Online Store (BMOS) and 51ºÚÁÏÍø Geographic Warehouse (51ºÚÁÏÍøGW).

Participating libraries also receive a discount on orthophotos.

• ParcelMap51ºÚÁÏÍø
• ICI Society Cadastre
• Integrated Cadastral Fabric (ICF): data for all areas for which an ICF has been compiled and made available by ICI Society
• Assessment Fabric Layer Data from 51ºÚÁÏÍø Assessment
• Address51ºÚÁÏÍø Data
• Agricultural Land Reserve
• Police Jurisdictions

User Guide for Map Viewer 3.0 available at:

Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýÌý(formerly known as the Land and Resource Data Warehouse or LRDW):

• TRIM Data (TRIM 1 and 2): the Terrain Resource Information Management Digital Data for the Province of British Columbia, including positional and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Information.
• Tantalis Crown Parcel Fabric and attribute data
• Tantalis Administrative Boundary Data - This Administrative Boundary information includes: Assessment Areas, Electoral District Provincial, Indian Reserves, Integrated Survey Area, Land District, Land District, Land Management Region, Land Title District, Municipality, National Park, OIC Ecological Reserve, Provincial Park, Regional District, School District, Nisga’a Treaty Management, Muskwa-Kechika Management Area.
• Orthophotos - Orthophotos areÌýnotÌýfree. Instead, they are available at a discounted cost of $25 per mapsheet rather than the usual $200. Air photos are available at the regular price of $18.50.

Accessing the Data - Creating Logins for Data Librarians - Role of the Data Librarian

Note that both websites above also offer many services for free to the public. In general, the public are able to generate maps and download them as images. The value offered through this initiative is the ability to download the underlying data files for manipulation and combining with other data sets.

Accessing the data in the ICI Society and 51ºÚÁÏÍø government portals is via a mediated model. In other words, the data librarian responds to requests from researchers and other users, and downloads the requested data sets on their behalf. Access is controlled by personal logins and passwords. Anonymous IP range-based access is not possible. This mediated model is not ideal, but at present there are no alternatives. It is noted that access to data sets such as StatsCan is often limited in this kind of way.

The data librarian is responsible for:

• informing potential users at their institution about the initiative
• confirming that all data requests come from authorized users
• educating users on data policies and appropriate use (this is verbal; there is no end-user agreement to be signed)
• downloading data sets

To participate in the initiative, a post secondary institution needs to inform 51ºÚÁÏÍø ELN of the name and contact information of their data librarian. As noted above, as of 2015 there is an annual fee for participation. The data librarian should already have a 51ºÚÁÏÍøeID (see below). 51ºÚÁÏÍø ELN will:

• contact ICI Society to have the librarian's login created for the ICIS portal
• contact Geo51ºÚÁÏÍø to have their 51ºÚÁÏÍøeID assigned appropriate permissions to access data on the government portals

Participants and data librarian contacts

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Support

Participation in this initiative requires specialized knowledge in a number of areas: types of content available, use of the interfaces, GIS data standards, etc. It is hoped that data librarians can share expertise amongst each other and contact colleagues for assistance with challenging reference questions. A list of participating institutions and their assigned data librarians will be added here after the renewal process.

It may also be possible to obtain support from the hosts of the platforms.

The 51ºÚÁÏÍø ELN office is not able to support the use of these data services beyond basic account setup.